Ecological Restoration as Public Spiritual Practice
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Gretel Van Wieren
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
The practice of ecological restoration is the attempt to repair ecosystems that have been damaged or degraded, most often by past human activities. Restoration includes everything from removing dams to planting native trees, grasses and wildflowers to bio-reactivating soil to controlling invasive plants to recontouring land. Beyond this, ecological restoration is the attempt to restore humans' relationship with nature. In the actual activities of restoring land, humans are in important ways restored to land. This paper argues that one of the ways in which restoration practice reconnects humans to nature is in a spiritual-moral sense. In addition to performing ecological work, restoration performs sacred work and serves as a form of public witness; and it can engender spiritual-moral experiences within participants. For these reasons, we can view restoration not only as a promising contemporary environmental practice, but also as a burgeoning public spiritual practice. The practice of ecological restoration is the attempt to repair ecosystems that have been damaged or degraded, most often by past human activities. Restoration includes everything from removing dams to planting native trees, grasses and wildflowers to bio-reactivating soil to controlling invasive plants to recontouring land. Beyond this, ecological restoration is the attempt to restore humans' relationship with nature. In the actual activities of restoring land, humans are in important ways restored to land. This paper argues that one of the ways in which restoration practice reconnects humans to nature is in a spiritual-moral sense. In addition to performing ecological work, restoration performs sacred work and serves as a form of public witness; and it can engender spiritual-moral experiences within participants. For these reasons, we can view restoration not only as a promising contemporary environmental practice, but also as a burgeoning public spiritual practice.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2008
توصيف ظاهري
237-254
عنوان
Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
شماره جلد
12/2-3
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5357
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION
اصطلاح موضوعی
ENVIRONMENT
اصطلاح موضوعی
ETHICS
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
Philosophy
اصطلاح موضوعی
RELIGION
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
SPIRITUALITY
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